The church of SMaria antiqua . ettlement. See Lanciani,Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome, Fig. 45 (and p. 114), for thephotograph of a precisely similar village on the W. side of the lake, onthe left bank of the Osa stream. Close to this, high up on the bank ofthe lake, is a small fragment of the primitive city wall. Two courses ofrough opus quadratum of local stone are preserved ; the blocks in eachcourse are about 33 cm. in height, and go up to 90 cm. in length. Furtheron is another longer fragment, the blocks of which only just appear above Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I.
The church of SMaria antiqua . ettlement. See Lanciani,Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome, Fig. 45 (and p. 114), for thephotograph of a precisely similar village on the W. side of the lake, onthe left bank of the Osa stream. Close to this, high up on the bank ofthe lake, is a small fragment of the primitive city wall. Two courses ofrough opus quadratum of local stone are preserved ; the blocks in eachcourse are about 33 cm. in height, and go up to 90 cm. in length. Furtheron is another longer fragment, the blocks of which only just appear above Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 191 the surface of the ground ; the line may in fact be traced along the edgeof the lake for most of the way to the tower. Neither of these two piecesof wall is mentioned in the Notizie degli Scavi. Both of them are runningN. by W. To the of the tower is a large piece of wall (Fig. 13), an angleformed by two lines, running respectively 150 W. of N. for 86o m. and dueW. for 9-95 m. The wall measures 170 m. in Fig. 12.—Hut Village, Gabii. There are three foundation courses, 0*55, C50, 0*63 high come four courses of good masonry, alternately of stretchers andheaders. The blocks are C45 m. in height and breadth on the average, whilethe stretchers vary in length from 1 ? 15 to 177 m. Most of the mortar betweenthe blocks was inserted when the wall was rebuilt in the Middle these again comes the irregular masonry of a mediaeval restoration,the blocks of the old wall being used again, with a great deal of mortarlaid between them. Fig. 13 shows the three different styles of masonry 192 The British School at Rome. very clearly. This is the most conspicuous relic of the walls of Gabii, butin the article of the Notizie already cited it is not even mentioned. As thewriters of that article can hardly have failed to see it, it must be assumedthat they believed it to be of purely mediaeval origin.
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